Skip to content

Opening book details…

Can I read Supersymmetry Anomalies in New Minimal Supergravity on EtoBox?

Supersymmetry Anomalies in New Minimal Supergravity by Papadimitriou, Ioannis is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Supersymmetry Anomalies in New Minimal Supergravity about?

We determine the general structure of quantum anomalies for the $R$-multiplet of four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric quantum field theories in the presence of background fields for an arbitrary number of Abelian flavor multiplets. By solving the Wess-Zumino consistency conditions for off-shell new minimal supergravity in four dimensions with an arbitrary number of Abelian vector multiplets, we compute the anomaly in the conservation of the supercurrent to leading non trivial order in the gravitino and vector multiplet fermions. We find that both $R$-symmetry and flavor anomalies necessarily lead to a supersymmetry anomaly, thus generalizing our earlier results to non superconformal theories with Abelian flavor symmetries. The anomaly in the conservation of the supercurrent leads to an anomalous transformation for the supercurrent under rigid supersymmetry on bosonic backgrounds that admit new minimal Killing spinors. The resulting deformation of the supersymmetry algebra has implications for supersymmetric localization computations on such backgrounds.

Author
Papadimitriou, Ioannis
Published
2019
Language
EN

More by Papadimitriou, Ioannis

Browse all works by Papadimitriou, Ioannis